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If You Give a Man a Womb, Is He a Woman?

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Is There a Future for Uterine Transplants?

Breakpoint: What if medical science did enable womb transplants, giving men the ability to carry and bear children within their bodies? Would that then make them women? Abigail Favali tells the story of the first real-life attempt at a womb transplant in Germany back in 1931. In four grizzly surgeries, Magnus Hirschfield removed Wagner's genitalia and transplanted a cadaver uterus into his body.

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